The Ten-Cent Plague
The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told -- until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu's remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority.In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created-in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress-only to resurface with a crooked smile on its face in Mad magazine.When we…
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- ISBN: 978-0-312-42823-5
- EAN: 9780312428235
- Produktnummer: 4146604
- Verlag: St. Martin's Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 458 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.6 cm 607 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 607
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David Hajdu
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